Stocks · Industrials · Industrial - Pollution & Treatment Controls
Fuel Tech, Inc. FTEK
$1.66 -3.49% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $51.7M
Expensive vs sector
Next earnings report: Nov 3, 2026
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Three things to know
- The stock is in an uptrend: above its 200-day average for 20 trading days, with the 50-day average above the 200-day.
- Over the past year the stock returned -42.6%, behind the S&P 500 by 57.6 percentage points.
- The stock is 48% below its highest close of the past year.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Industrials sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Top 46%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 3%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 27%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 10%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 11%
- Gross marginTop 17%
- Operating marginBottom 12%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 25%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 22%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 22%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 12%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 39%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 7%
- 6-month returnTop 17%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 10%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 17%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 27%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 19%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 16%
- Share of analysts rating BuyBottom 23%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 27%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 25%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 17%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -0.7% | 8.9% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 44.4% | 44.7% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | -18.2% | -16.8% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | 1.8% | -4.3% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 8.9% | -0.7% | ↑ | Top 46% |
| Gross margin | 44.7% | 44.4% | ↑ | Top 17% |
| Operating margin | -16.8% | -18.2% | ↑ | Bottom 12% |
| Net margin | -12.7% | -12.9% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -4.3% | 1.8% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -11.9% | — | Bottom 11% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -0.3% | — | Bottom 27% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -7.6%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.8%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- -46.8 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- Net cash
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 0.00%
- Shareholder yield
- 0.00%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +1.0%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +0.9%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 4, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 2 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- -25.0%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- -0.9%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 4 of 8
Analysts
- Analysts with a rating
- 5
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 40%
- Consensus rating
- Hold
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | -100.0% | +2.0% | -8.0% | -5.3% | — |
| May 5, 2026 | — | -2.5% | -8.6% | -9.8% | -11.7% |
| Mar 3, 2026 | -33.3% | -7.4% | -17.4% | -20.1% | +1.3% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | +0.0% | -4.5% | -21.6% | -33.0% | -48.5% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | +33.3% | +5.7% | +2.1% | +3.2% | -2.9% |
| May 12, 2025 | +0.0% | -1.3% | +16.5% | +115.5% | +203.1% |
| Mar 4, 2025 | -100.0% | -0.0% | -1.3% | +8.2% | +78.4% |
| Nov 6, 2024 | — | +1.0% | +0.0% | +2.9% | -3.9% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | -$0.04 | -$0.02 | -100.0% | $6.5M |
| May 5, 2026 | -$0.04 | — | — | $6.1M |
| Mar 3, 2026 | -$0.04 | -$0.03 | -33.3% | $7.2M |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.01 | $0.01 | +0.0% | $7.5M |
| Aug 5, 2025 | -$0.02 | -$0.03 | +33.3% | $5.6M |
| May 12, 2025 | -$0.02 | -$0.02 | +0.0% | $6.4M |
| Mar 4, 2025 | -$0.06 | -$0.03 | -100.0% | $5.3M |
| Nov 6, 2024 | $0.00 | — | — | $7.9M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / Sales | 1.64× | — | — | Top 39% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -2.29% | — | — | Bottom 22% |
| Earnings yield | -6.78% | — | — | Bottom 22% |
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✓ Price above 50-day average
- ✓ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 19
- Days above the 200-day average
- 20
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -1.0%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -0.3%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +7.6%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +11.5%
- RSI (14)
- 50.9
- Relative volume
- 0.56×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 61.7%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 58th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.67
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.15
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -48.0%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -67.2%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2021 | Feb 12, 2025 | -85.8% | 1018 days | Not yet recovered |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | -47.3% | 17 days | 15 days (Jan 12, 2021) |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 | -24.0% | 4 days | 3 days (Nov 20, 2020) |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Oct 29, 2020 | -17.6% | 11 days | 9 days (Nov 11, 2020) |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Jan 20, 2021 | -11.1% | 5 days | 3 days (Jan 25, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $51.7M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$0.11
- Revenue (TTM)
- $27.3M
- 52-week range
- $1.17 – $3.45
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $24.3M | $26.9M | $27.1M | $25.1M | $26.7M |
| Gross profit | $11.9M | $11.6M | $11.7M | $10.6M | $12.4M |
| Operating income | -$1.5M | -$1.5M | -$2.7M | -$4.7M | -$3.7M |
| Net income | $54,000 | -$1.4M | -$1.5M | -$1.9M | -$2.3M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.00 | -$0.05 | -$0.05 | -$0.06 | -$0.08 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $7.9M | $5.3M | $6.4M | $5.6M | $7.5M | $7.2M | $6.1M | $6.5M |
| Net income | $80,000 | -$1.9M | -$739,000 | -$689,000 | $303,000 | -$1.2M | -$1.4M | -$1.2M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.00 | -$0.06 | -$0.02 | -$0.02 | $0.01 | -$0.04 | -$0.04 | -$0.04 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $761,000 | -$4.1M | $696,000 | -$3.4M | $3.0M |
| Capital expenditure | -$84,000 | -$206,000 | -$418,000 | -$378,000 | -$674,000 |
| Free cash flow | $677,000 | -$4.3M | $278,000 | -$3.8M | $2.3M |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $25.8M | $0 | $0 | -$95,000 | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $19.6M
- Total assets
- $43.2M
- Total liabilities
- $5.8M
- Total debt
- $533,000
- Net debt
- -$7.1M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $37.4M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 4, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 362,655
- Days to cover
- 1.18
- Change vs previous report
- +166.3%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.